Senior Sales Financial Analyst

Summary

Join Western Digital, a leader in data storage technology, and contribute to our mission of unlocking data's potential. As a key member of the finance team, you will collaborate with sales management, manage budgets, and analyze financial data. Your responsibilities include preparing commission calculations, conducting reconciliations, creating sales performance metrics, and delivering insightful financial reports. You will be an integral part of the monthly financial close process and partner with stakeholders to achieve shared goals. This role requires a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, 4-6 years of experience, and strong analytical and communication skills. Western Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, health insurance, retirement plans, and more.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics
• Minimum 4-6 years of relevant experience in high tech or similar industry
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Attention to detail
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment
• Adaptability to rapid business and organizational changes
• Capability to manage multiple high-priority projects simultaneously
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong ability to establish and maintain business partnerships
• Willingness and ability to learn and adapt to rapid business and organizational changes as needed
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
• Proficiency in PowerPoint
• Experience with large ERP systems

Responsibilities

• Collaborate and partner closely with sales management to manage operating expenses (OPEX), headcount, and the overall budget
• Prepare and analyze monthly commissions calculations/accruals
• Conduct monthly commission account reconciliations and audit of key commission processes
• Create and manage sales performance metrics to track and identify key trends, risks, and opportunities while ensuring a high degree of accuracy
• Deliver financial reports supported by business insights
• Integral member of the monthly financial close process
• Partner with key business stakeholders to achieve shared goals
• Embrace process improvements to help scale the business
• Provide insightful and actionable recommendations for effective, strategic decision-making through data analysis
• Ad hoc financial analysis/modeling

Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge of dash-boarding tools such as PowerBI or Tableau

Benefits

• Paid vacation time
• Paid sick leave
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Life, accident and disability insurance
• Tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
• Employee assistance program
• Other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity
• Tuition reimbursement
• Transit
• The Applause Program
• Employee stock purchase plan
• The Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan
• Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan
• Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program
• Restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents